Myspace could damage your career

SOCIAL Notworking sites, like Myspace and Facebook could, totally stuff up your career thunders the Times.

The Times, owned by Rupert Murdoch, who also owns Myspace, showed a surprising lack of editorial interference when it blasted the site as a career killer.

Quoting a leading recruitment firm, the Times cautioned against uploading profiles to Notworking sites.

Badenoch & Clark had found that 62 per cent of British executives were signed up to Facebook, MySpace or another social networking site and used them to dig digital dirt on ideal candidates.

One in five employers used the sites to search for information on candidates and looked at how they projected themselves, another survey, conducted by the networking site Viadeo, found.

Two thirds of those asked said the information influenced a recruitment decision, while a quarter said that they had changed their mind and decided not to hire someone because of what was online.

Badenoch & Clark said employers were taking note of "net reputation" so it is right to be a bit careful.

The Times proudly tells all that Murdoch's Myspace is the largest social notworking site and gives a helpful list of things you should not put up on the rival Facebook.

These include debauched, drunken parties, which is why the INQ Christmas party is off line.

If you want to be employed ever again, you should not complain about your job, boss or colleagues, or making disrespectful remarks about your company. Nor should you gossip about romantic trysts.

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